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whorl of spreading branches; these bore pedunculated spikes of hand¬ 
some pale-yellow flowers. It proved to be a good border species. 
Liipinus mutabilis variicolor (Carter & Co.)—A sportive form of 
L. mutabilis, various in colour. The plants were of tall branching 
habit, with smooth branches; the flowers in short racemes, of different 
shades of blue with a darker standard, or white with a purplish-lilac 
standard. A suitable and ornamental plant for shrubbery borders. 
Lupinus nanus lilacinus (Van Houtte).—A variety of this dwarf 
species, with pale or grayish flowers, dingy in appearance, and far 
less effective than the ordinary blue form, which is a very elegant 
dwarf, spreading, diffusely-branched plant, with longish racemes of 
clear blue flowers, the standard of which is marked throughout the 
centre with white. 
Lupinus subcarnosus. Syn: L. subramosus (Van Houtte).—A fine 
dwarf, spreading, compactly-branched species, with light green foliage, 
producing numerous short racemes of deep-blue flowers marked on the 
standard with a conspicuous white spot. It w^as a showy, high-coloured 
species, but did not produce its flowers so freely as usual during the 
present season. 
Lupinus tricolor elegans (Veitch).—An ornamental variety, of 
branched and spreading habit, the stems finely downy, 2^ feet high, 
bearing abundantly racemes of moderate size ; the flowers white, with 
the standard deep lilac changing to pucy-purple. The flowers w’ere 
very effective, the colours being finely contrasted. 
Benary The plants of this handsome 
Carter & Co. 3 hybrid Lychnis did not 
succeed very well in the open ground, owing to accidental adverse 
conditions of soil. They were about a foot high, and unbranched, 
bearing a few flowers opening in succession on the upper part of the 
stems. The flowers were various in colour, including vivid scarlet, 
light orange-scarlet, light and dark crimson, dull reddish-crimson, and 
white; and their petals had a conspicuous single tooth at the side. 
In pots of good soil, the plants were taller, and more branched; and 
those with bright scarlet flowers were very handsome. The stems 
were sometimes dark-coloured, sometimes pale green, according as the 
plants produced lighter or darker coloured flowers, and they were clothed 
with reversed hairs; the leaves were oblong-ovate, acute, downy and 
ciliated ; the calyces clothed with long cobwebby hairs, and the flowers 
varying from 2 inches to 2| inches in diameter. 
Malcomla maritima alba. Syn ; Gheiranthus maritinius (Van 
Houtte).—An early-blooming, white-flowered Virginian Stock. 
Nernophila discoidalis marmorata (Vilmorin).—A poor looking 
annual, with small dark mottled flowers. 
Nycterinia selaginoides (Veitch).—This plant formed dwarf compact 
tufts, furnished with small narrow or oblong spathulate leaves, which 
were toothed towards the blunt apex, and clothed like the stem, with 
soft hairs. The flowers grew in flattish terminal corymbs, elongating 
with age, and were pretty, star-shaped, white or lilac, with a bright 
orange centre. Tiie calyx was adnate for half its length with the mid¬ 
rib of the leaf or bract in whose axil the flower was placed; the corolla 
Lychnis Haageana -I” 
